A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

epic Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.1 6.4 1.6 9.9 17.4 21.9 0
Number of occurrences1912 1 1 3 2 0
Number of authors16 10 1 1 2 2

Occurrences of epic in Corpus

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Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
Prentit bi Epic Colour, 75 Trafalgar Lane, Ed on page 2

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Andra’s Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
er hed tae dree. Mireille, an epic o hauflin luve an tragedie - on page 50

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
Pit-poetry, that includit the epic warks A Daurk Line o Fir Tree on page 133
fu owersettin o the Icelandic epic mentioned abuin, and his tech on page 134

3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
quote frae Sir Walter Scott's epic poem The Lay of the Last Mins
1 matches

Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
colourful. Thur wis a smashin epic Broons poyum fae Kate which l
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
A wondrous epic A had planned
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
epic verse,
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Review: Saltire: Invasioun, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
man sodgers but fechtin in an epic clash agin the Roman gode o w
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
it kythes in the 14th-century epic The Brus, the earliest mensef
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
hn Barbour uises in his Scots epic poem ‘The Brus’ (c. 1370)
1 matches

Doric

@beast_afc tweeted
ewfirmderby is back! Gonna be epic. #standfree #COYR https://t.c(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
tae-dot fate. I sank intae an epic dwam on page 26

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
dey wir somethin epic aboot da moment, on page 30

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
lderness experience; wrat his epic on page 19

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
absolutely adore alamooties. Epic peerie birds. https://t.co/TC(2020) search twitter

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
That was an epic at the dart but came away wit(2012) search twitter

@StuartPoet tweeted
shugmcmillan Miriam is beyond epic and into the realms of byordn(2020) search twitter